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- Based on the Italian filmmaker’s own childhood, “L’immensità” follows the turbulent dynamics of a nuclear family living in 1970s Rome.
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In 1970s Rome, Clara is a nonconformist Spanish expatriate trapped in a loveless marriage to Felice, an unfaithful and abusive businessman, with whom she has three children: Adriana, Gino and Diana. Their eldest child, 12-year-old Adriana, experiences gender dysphoria.
May 18, 2023 · “But [L’immensità] was fascinating to me because in this film she is a true heroine.” The film movingly depicts Crialese’s own upbringing as a trans child growing up in the ’70s. Cruz plays his...
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Aug 10, 2023 · L’immensità is both a coming-of-age and a coming-of-gender story about teenager Adriana (Luana Giuliani) who wants to be accepted by the world as a boy, choosing the male name Andrea.
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His first feature in 11 years, L’Immensità is particularly personal, Crialese has said, based as it is on his own experience as a trans man; asked about Andrea, he has said, “There is no doubt that that’s me.”
Aug 11, 2023 · If L’immensità feels personal, it’s because Crialese, a 58-year-old Italian filmmaker, partly based the screenplay upon his own childhood.
May 12, 2023 · Ahead of the U.S. theatrical release of L’immensità, Emanuele Crialese and Penélope Cruz spoke with Them via Zoom about maternal relationships, working with (and learning from) child actors, and why the film’s musical numbers were so key to the story.
Sep 4, 2022 · A tender, intensely personal portrait of dysfunctional family in 1970s Rome, Italian director Emanuele Crialese’s L’Immensita covers a lot of distance indeed. Internationally, it’s bound to...
